Contextual Effects on Subjective National Identity and Nationalist Vote in Catalonia

Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials, Working Paper No. 311

26 Pages Posted: 13 Jan 2013 Last revised: 24 Jan 2013

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Joan Barceló

New York University (NYU) - Division of Social Science

Date Written: December 1, 2012

Abstract

The important inflow of foreign population to western countries has boosted the study of acculturation processes among scholars in the last decades. By using the case of Catalonia, a receiver region of international and national migration since the fifties, this paper seeks to intersect a classic acculturation model and a newly reemerging literature in political science on contextual determinants on individual behavior. Does the context matters for understanding individual’s subjective national identity and, therefore, its voting behavior? Multilevel models show that environment matters. Percentage of Spain-born population in the town is statistically significant to account for variance in the subjective national identity and nationalist vote, even after controlling for age, sex, origin, language and left – right orientation and other contextual factors. This conclusion invites researchers not to underestimate the direct effect of the environment on individual outcomes such as feelings of belonging and vote orientation in contexts of rival identities.

Keywords: contextual effects, subjective national identity, ethnicities, acculturation process, immigration, nationalism, rival identities

Suggested Citation

Barceló, Joan, Contextual Effects on Subjective National Identity and Nationalist Vote in Catalonia (December 1, 2012). Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials, Working Paper No. 311, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2200128 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2200128

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